Improvement in washing-machines



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS M. NIXON AND ENOCH N. BABOOCK, OF LENA, ILLINOIS. A

lMPROVEM ENT m WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming pnrt of Letters Patent No. 143,?09, dated October14,1873 application filed August 13, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANCIS M. NIxoN and ENOOH N. BABOOGK, of Lena, inthe county of Stephenson and in the State of Illinois, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Washing Machine; and do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to theletters of reference marked thereon, making a part of thisspecification.

Our invention relates to that class of washing-machines in which arocking semicircular or segmental rubber is used to wash the clothesbetween it and the semicircular bottom of the tub in which the rubber isplaced; and the nature of our invention consists in the construction andarrangements of the parts, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which our inventionappertains to make and use the same, we will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, whichrepresents a longitudinal vertical section of our machine.-

A represents the tub or box of our washingmachine, supported upon legs BB, and provided with a semicircular bottom, 0. On this bottom are placeda series of half-round'bars, a a, the sides of which are made flat, asshown, and when put together form an inverted arch. The top bar on eachside of the arch is shouldered,and fastens under the lower edge of theend piece of the box'or tub A, which secures all the bars firmly inposition without the use of any nails, screws, or any other fastening.vThe side pieces of the tub or box A have each a verticalslot, b, in thecenter, and in these slots rest the ends of a shaft, D, to which therubber is secured. This rubber consists of segmental or semicircularside pieces E 'E, which are connected byhalf=round barsd d fastened bymeans of metal straps e e. The center of the circle of which the rubberforms a part is in the center of the shaft D, while the center of thecircle of which the bottom 0 forms a part is a short distance below thelower end of the slot 1), and the two circles passingthrough the outersurfaces of the bars d and the inner surfaces of the bars a have thesame radius. From this construction and arrrangement of the rubber andthe bottom of the box it will be seen that a larger space is formedbelow the center of the rubber than at the ends. This causesthe clothesto wash to the center when the machine is in motion, and prevents theclothes from working out at the ends. Over each end of the shaft D,inside of the rubber, is passed a slotted handle, Gr, the outer ends ofwhich handles are connected by a round, f, and the lower ends held tothe side pieces E of the rubber by screws i and washers h. G G may belengthened or shortened at will to suit the convenience or sizeo'f theoperator.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the handles G, slotted at their lower ends, washersh, and nuts 11 with the shaft D and rocking beater E, all substantiallyas and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our handsthis 22d day of July, 1873.

FRANCIS M. NIXON. ENOOHN. BABOOOK. Witnesses:

A. N. MARR, NEWTON LrNsLnY.

By these means the handles

